Daily Weird Quotes

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.
- Henry Rollins

Batman has one. Superman doesn’t. Fred Flinstone does. Bugs Bunny does (whether Daffy wants to admit it or not.. he’s a sidekick).

I want a sidekick. Not a minion though, I don’t need someone daft. But a good authentic sidekick. Like an assistant that dresses up and appears at will to do my bidding. Or we collaborate at night to set things right with the land and then we wave our hands in humbleness while people repeatedly thank us. Someone who will laugh at all my jokes. Maybe my 4yr old counts as a sidekick? She does like to dress up afterall. She needs me for her own survival. And she laughs at everything I do.. no matter how stupid.

Huh. Revelation there. That’s nice.

You know, somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen, it said ‘Parking Fine.’
- Tommy Cooper

We took my mother-in-law to the airport yesterday for her to return home and of course she books her flight for peak hours. So we take the airport exit off the highway, find the Delta terminal and come to a screeching halt waiting to get our ticket for parking.

My husband doesn’t like standing in line. Ever. He feels there’s a way around everything, and if there isn’t, oh well, he just made an ass out of himself and he’s ok with that. So the line of cars is ridiculously long to wait for the hourly parking tickets and one of the lots is full. He swings around all of them in a lane no one seems to be taking. And I told him to just go to the Daily Parking. He said he’ll pay more, but I explained it won’t be much and it beats waiting in line when we have to get her inside. So he agreed and the line for the Daily Parking was empty. He took it. We got our ticket. We parked. This took 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, the line of cars for hourly parking got longer.

If my husband was wrong about going around, he would’ve found another path. We’re so scared about breaking rules, pissing people off, or doing the right thing that we never go outside of our little box to explore a little and use cognitive thinking. You have to cut your own path sometimes and do what the others aren’t doing.

You know what, rip me off once, shame on me. But twice? I’m coming after you and taking back what’s mine.
- Billy Mays

I’m sure you have goals, right? We all have some sort of goal or dream. What are you doing to reach it? Do you work on it everyday?

My list of goals keep getting longer and longer, but I realize that my goals and my dreams are just a destination. Kind of like “Yes Man”, that Jim Carrey movie? You’ve got to see it. For Zooey Deschanel alone, she’s totally worth it. But the movie shows what can happen if you open yourself to possibilities and opportunities. It’s like the universe just tilts its way to you… it’s hard to explain. But put it this way. You want to make a cake? You think you have all the ingredients for that recipe, but you don’t, You’re missing something. Suddenly you remember another cake recipe that doesn’t need the ingredient, and that ingredient you do have. Your cake turns out better than the other might have because a little ingenuity came with it.

Ingenue is a cool word.

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
– Thomas A. Edison

Not actually a weird quote, more like a strange motivation. I work my best when I’m most uncomfortable. I could be uncomfortable about how my financial situation is, my work environment, or if I have to meet a project deadline. I think that’s the pain/pleasure principle, except I operate harder when there’s pain involved.

When I’m happy and loosey goosey, I’m quite dreamy. However, when I know there is pain involved or will be involved if I don’t get my butt in gear… I will work like a dog to get something accomplished and within detail as well. I’m not rushing through it, but it takes me less time than if I had engaged the task in my usual happy self.

Maybe I put things off until the last minute because I know I perform better? Huh. Just made that insight. Go me!

A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor he’s not alone in the way he feels about himself.
- Kenneth Williams

When I was a kid I joined every fan club I could get my sticky fingers on. I signed up for everything, wrote letters to everyone, and got a lot of things back. Newsletters, stickers, t-shirts… you named it and I had it sent to me (all free of course, we could never afford those fan club dues).

I wrote to everyone, even ones that had no fan club. My mom was clever enough to save all my responses in a photo album, so now I can look back on those days and say, “Wow! I was a dork!”

But I was a cool dork. And you can be too. What’s stopping you from making your own fan club? There’s plenty of meetup sites that you can get together with other fans and start your own club. Start one for some band that doesn’t have groupies yet… or start one for an up and coming actor… or hell, start one for yourself. By the way, Spandau Ballet Fan Club meeting 2nd Tuesdays at 8pm in downtown Atlanta. Pass the word.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.
- Lyndon B. Johnson

What is it about Saturdays that make things so full of hope? There hasn’t been a Saturday that I’ve woken up too full of excitement and possibility. How can one be excited to run errands? Just on Saturday I am.

I will compile a laundry list of errands I have to run, household chores I have to complete, and big goals I’m working towards. And by the end of Saturday, by goodness, I’ll get them done! I feel invigorated on Saturday morning, like I could conquer the world like Napoleon. Nothing can stop me. Except for midnight on Sunday morning.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.
– Salvador Dali

I have this friend of mine who always says the wrong thing. I tell her, “I have to go to the mall to buy a new pair of pants.” Her response is, “Oh because you gained weight huh?”

She means nothing ill by it, I’ve come to notice that it’s just a part of her personality and I absolutely adore it. I adore it because it’s who she is. She will always say the wrong thing.

If someone always puts their foot in their mouth or otherwise embarrasses themselves, why run away from it? You should embrace it and them and draw inspiration from it. They’re being who they are, they’re living freely while you stay in your little box pleasing others. I’m guilty of people-pleasing too, so I live vicariously through these other people. They have the strength to be who they are, I feel I have to maintain status quo.

It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
– Salman Rushdie

I thought the story about the Israeli newspaper turning over all of it’s departments to poets and writers was pretty interesting. For one day, poets and authors wrote for Haaretz, with the exception of the sports section and a few other articles.

Can you imagine an American paper doing that? Who would you get to write your newspaper?

Speaking of that type of style, letting a novice take over an expert position… I see the world in that light from time to time. I put myself in someone else’s shoes for a little bit and observe what’s going on around me. It gives me a little deeper understand of the world around me and also for people.

I always think about what it’d be like dropping a Victorian in this day in age. That’d be pretty funny.

Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
– Douglas Adams

The beginning of anything is rather exciting. You’re on the cusp of greatness or on a slow descent into hell. And you never know which one it is until you get there.
There have been plenty of times that I’ve hit a bottom, only later to dig myself out of it and say “Oh wow that was the bottom? And here I thought it could’ve gotten worse.”

Maintain the art of beginnings and of the undiscovered sensation. See with brand news eyes all the time and then you’ll be happy with the mundane. Or you could end up an adreline junkie and who really likes needles anyways?